1 Born Under A Bad Sign 2 I Play The Blues For You 3 Kansas City 4 Laundromat Blues 5 Red House 6 The
Hunter 7 Blues At Sunrise (with Stevie Ray V.)

Bluesman Albert King was one of the premier electric guitar stylists of the post-World War II period. By playing left-handed
and holding his guitar upside-down (with the strings set for a right-handed player), and by concentrating on tone and intensity
more than flash, King fashioned over his long career, a sound that was both distinctive and highly influential. He was a master
of the single-string solo and could bend strings to produce a particularly tormented blues sound that set his style apart
from his contemporaries. A number of prominent artists,from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Mike Bloomfield and Stevie Ray
Vaughan, borrowed heavily from King's guitar style.

King was also the first major blues guitarist to cross over into
modem soul;his mid- and late 1960s recordings for the Stax label, cut with the same great session musicians who played on
the recordings of Otis Redding, Sam & Dave,Eddie Floyd, and others, appealed to his established black audience while broadening
his appeal with rock fans. Along with B.B. King (no relation, though at times Albert suggested otherwise) and Muddy Waters,
King helped nurture a white interest in blues when the music needed it most to survive.

King was born in Mississippi
and taught himself how to play on a homemade guitar. Inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson, King quit singing in a family gospel
group and took up the blues. He worked around Osceola, Arkansas, with a group called the In the Groove Boys before migrating
north and ending up in Gary,Indiana, in the early 1950s. For a while, King played drums behind bluesman Jimmy Reed. In 1953,
King convinced Parrot label owner Al Benson to record him as a blues singer and guitarist. That year King cut "Bad Luck
Blues" and"Be on Your Merry Way" for Parrot. Because King received little in the way of financial remuneration
for the record, he left Parrot and eventually moved to St. Louis, where he recorded for the Bobbin and the King labels. In
1959 he had a minor hit on Bobbin with "I'm a Lonely Man." King's biggest release, "Don't Throw Your Love on
Me So Strong," made it to number 14 on the R&B charts in 1961.

King didn't become a major blues figure until
after he signed with Stax Records in 1966. Working with producer-drummer Al Jackson, Jr., guitarist Steve Cropper, keyboards
ace Booker T. Jones, and bass player Donald "Duck"Dunn-aka Booker T. and the MGs King created a blues sound that
was laced with Memphis soul strains. Although the blues were dominant on songs such as"Laundromat Blues" and the
classic "Born Under A Bad Sign", the tunes had Memphis soul underpinnings that gave King his crossover appeal. Not
only was he the first blues artist to play the legendary San Francisco rock venue the Fillmore West, but he was also on the
debut bill, sharing the stage opening night in1968 with Jimi Hendrix and John Mayall. King went on to become a regular at
the Fillmore; his album Live Wire/Blues Power was recorded there in 1968.King was also one of the first bluesman to record
with a symphony orchestra: in1969 he performed with the St. Louis Symphony, triumphantly bringing together the blues and classical
music, if only for a fleeting moment.

During the 1970s King toured extensively, often playing to rock and soul crowds.
He left Stax in 1974 to record for independent labels like Tomato and Fantasy. King was inducted into the Blues Foundation's
Hall of Fame in 1983.He continued touring throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, playing festivals and concerts, often with
B.B. King. He died of a heart attack in 1992, just prior to starting a major European tour.